Customer IPv6 Beta trials are here:

http://helpforum.sky.com/t5/Fibre-broadband/New-IPv6-Beta-Trial/td-p/2363348

With the Americas running out of IPv4, it’s official: The Internet is full - Ars

The march towards IPv6 continues with Ars reporting that ARIN is started to exhaust its stock of IPv4 as well with only 17 millions unique public IP addresses left in reserve. 

Story here:
http://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2014/06/with-the-americas-running-out-of-ipv4-its-official-the-internet-is-full/

Playing around with Hurricane electrics IPv6 tunnel on a Raspberry Pi..

Apparently I'm Newbie Certified... 0.o

Netflix: Enabling Support for IPv6

http://techblog.netflix.com/2012/07/enabling-support-for-ipv6.h

and here's a Open Connect video:

Xbox One: IPv6, Teredo, and IPsec

ISPs React to the Dangers of Adopting IPv4 Internet Address Sharing

http://www.ispreview.co.uk/index.php/2013/01/uk-isps-react-to-the-pros-and-cons-of-ipv4-internet-address-sharing.html

ISP PlusNet Trials Controversial IPv4 Address Sharing as IPv6 Alternative

Lets hope PlusNet are quite vocal about their findings as it would be an interesting insight.

http://www.ispreview.co.uk/index.php/2013/01/isp-plusnet-trials-controversial-ipv4-address-sharing-as-ipv6-alternative.html

6UK Scrapped After Failing to Encourage IPv6 Adoption Among UK ISPs

Not a great thing to see. There are a few IPv6 ISP's out there but most of the top ones are not rolling it out right down to the end user.

http://www.ispreview.co.uk/index.php/2012/12/6uk-to-be-scrapped-after-failing-to-encourage-uk-ipv6-adoption.html

More info ok the UK government and requirements for new network equipment:
https://update.cabinetoffice.gov.uk/sites/default/files/resources/psn_common_req_0.pdf

RIPE NCC Begins to Allocate IPv4 Address Space From the Last /8

End end is nigh!

http://www.ripe.net/internet-coordination/news/ripe-ncc-begins-to-allocate-ipv4-address-space-from-the-last-8

Windows 8 moves to IPv6 Internet

ZDNet: http://www.zdnet.com/windows-8-moves-to-ipv6-internet-7000000991/

Measuring IPv6 - Country by Country

CircleID: http://www.circleid.com/posts/20120625_measuring_ipv6_country_by_country/

World IPv6 day.

So some major sites are going IPv6 operational on a permanent basis from today.

Check out the video:

Adding IPv6 access to your blogger blog.

I've switched my blog (domain poijnting at Blogger hosted site) to provide AAAA / A records to DNS requests no matter which resolver makes the request. Google currently only provide IPv6 AAAA records to whitelist DNS resolvers on their default ghs.google.com and thus if the resolver is outside of this it will only be given an A record.

Using ghs46.google.com overrides this and that is what I have changed the CNAME on alpagot.co.uk to.

For more info, see the link: here

New Sky DSL connection.

My new connection was put in yesterday.

Having checked my postcode on thinkbroad's map against the closest telephone exchange (straight line distance about 500meters) I was hopeful of fast speeds on ADSL. When the connection went live I connected locally into the Sky phase 3 router (Sagem) via a web browser using the internal IP of 192.168.0.1 . On the maintenance page you will find a show statistics button at the bottom which gave me the following:  



Here I could see the downstream attenuation which I could put into a attenuation calculator to see if I was near the theoretical maximum. 21,344kbps was suggested as the absolute maximum so I wasn't massively off.

It's likely that I could improve on my downstream sync speed of 17.7Mbps with a couple of tweaks such as going directly to the master socket's test socket, removing other devices from the line such as the phone and trying a different DSL filter / shorter data cable.

Next up was to try some speed testers which test throughput (Note the sync is the connection to the telephone exchange, throughput is what is passing through that connection and is effected by anything else that maybe using the connection at the same time as the test).

The results were not bad either, 14Mbps during the day is very decent. I'll take some evening reading as well to update the blog but I'm very happy for the time being. FTTC is in my area but I can't really justify the cost with these speeds having some from a long line where I had a sync of 4Mbps. It's a shame Sky don't offer static IP's but at least they have put dynDNS.org functionality into there routers which I'm told is a lot of hassel on Virgin Media who I almost had to sign up to.

Here's hoping for IPv6 functionality as well.


EDIT:
An evening speedtest result around 9pm

Ars Technica - IPv6 coming in force this year!

Article:

With World IPv6 Launch, IPv6 on by default will be the new normal

The Register has a IPv6 rant...

Link: http://www.theregister.co.uk/2012/03/31/ipv6_sucks_for_smes/

It very much does sound like a rant and although there are some fair points buried in there, as well as some interesting links, be sure to read the comments as well! It does also neglect the fact that the alternative is sticking with IPv4 and having to deal with large scale NAT (LSN)

IPv6 - The live date is set!

Google have a new article on IPv6 and a go live date for them here:

http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2012/01/ipv6-countdown-to-launch.html

To see the Internet societies dedicated page, visit: http://www.worldipv6launch.org/
It'll be nice to see what some of the major UK ISP's announce in the run up.

It'll be a good time to be a newly qualified CCNA / CCNP engineer I think.